Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

2015-02-04 Thread Ondra via Digitalmars-d-announce
Also do somebody know how should I speed up the sprite part of the code? In my opinion, it's pretty slow alrought it was the easiest way I could come up with. Hi, you have wrong approach to this problem. From design OOP view it is perfectly ok and this is how you universities teach it in

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thank you, Kingsley, for a very well organized and thought-through event. I was impressed by the calibre of people that attended, and look forward to attending future meetups.

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight into production, and they are happy with it. The C interop

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4 February 2015 at 21:17, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:14:24 +, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 13:50:54 UTC, wobbles wrote: p.s. Hope the search for your dog went well. Yes, we found her after she was outside for a week. Lost about 13% of her body weight and had dehydration and hypothermia, but

Re: Martin Nowak is our new release czar

2015-02-04 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 00:07:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck! He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine political fights, we have a new, ruthless

Martin Nowak is our new release czar

2015-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck! He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine political fights, we have a new, ruthless czar: Martin Nowak. He plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable

Re: Martin Nowak is our new release czar

2015-02-04 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/02/2015 1:07 p.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck! He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine political fights, we have a new, ruthless czar: Martin Nowak. He

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to everyone who attended it was a great evening of D fun :) As part of the evening we did a secret santa code challenge - here are some of the results: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/messages/boards/thread/48694585 We had about 13 people from different backgrounds - many

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Also Iain B was there (who maintains the GDC compiler) and he mentioned that he was more from a devops background than a developer background and found it interesting to see how people were using the compiler. Thanks all who came from further away for making it :) On Wednesday, 4 February

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4 February 2015 at 14:14, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 13:50:54 UTC, wobbles wrote: p.s. Hope the search for your dog went well. Yes, we found her after she was outside for a week. Lost about 13% of

Re: DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

2015-02-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-02-03 11:01, Chris wrote: And still nobody knows what DStep is all about? BTW, this is a three year old thread someone answered to. It was the initial announcement of DStep. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4 February 2015 at 12:58, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Also Iain B was there (who maintains the GDC compiler) and he mentioned that he was more from a devops background than a developer background and found it interesting to see how people

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 04:57:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I can't believe it, but yet another week has already passed, so up late to release this again! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/feb-01.html Early bird registration open for DConf, 2015 Vision released, GUI and Windows

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 13:50:54 UTC, wobbles wrote: p.s. Hope the search for your dog went well. Yes, we found her after she was outside for a week. Lost about 13% of her body weight and had dehydration and hypothermia, but the vet was able to treat it and it looks like she'll make

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x 3) which is equivalent to a foldLeft ( I think) On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 14:52:32 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 2/4/15, Kingsley via

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 14:14:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 13:50:54 UTC, wobbles wrote: p.s. Hope the search for your dog went well. Yes, we found her after she was outside for a week. Lost about 13% of her body weight and had dehydration and

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:57:09 +, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I can't believe it, but yet another week has already passed, so up late to release this again! OT: just used your `arsd.cgi` to write a simple web-service (internal service using to decode some binary files to text). it took me about

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread eles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 14:14:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 13:50:54 UTC, wobbles wrote: the vet was able to treat it and it looks like she'll make a full recovery over the next month as she puts the weight back on. Wow. She is a fighter. Glad to

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/4/15, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: A couple of issues came out of the challenge regarding familiarity with syntax and then spending time hunting down the docs - is there a forall in D? What would forall do?

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce píše v St 04. 02. 2015 v 15:08 +: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 15:02:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote: usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce píše v St 04. 02. 2015 v 15:08 +: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 15:02:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote: usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-04 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 14:34:18 UTC, eles wrote: Wow. She is a fighter. Glad to hear that everything is OK now. Aye, I really don't know how she survived some of those nights, below zero temperatures (Fahrenheit - so actually cold) with nasty wind from that storm that hit the

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 15:02:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote: usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x 3) If I understand what you want correctly, std.algorithm.all

Re: Martin Nowak is our new release czar

2015-02-04 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5 February 2015 at 10:07, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck! He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and

Re: Martin Nowak is our new release czar

2015-02-04 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 00:07:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck! He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine political fights, we have a new, ruthless